Marzo y abril
Parte del log de 2020I thought this whole thing about a worldwide pandemic would have ended by now but I guess the whole world is stuck at home for at least a few weeks more, so here are some things that I liked reading or watching lately.
En Español
- ¿Quién planchaba las enaguas de Jane Austen?
- La película Vampiros en la Habana, la banda sonora es increíble
Projects
I am going to try to write here also things that are not very public-facing but still interesting, as a sort of diary. Some things I have done:
- Made some changes to my webpage
- Learned some Go
- Learned some Rust, I am trying to rewrite an old project on Rust (maybe more about that on the next log?)
- Started at a new job (yay)
- Rewrote some parts of the FilmAffinity to Letterboxd script (thank you to the two people who made PRs :) )
- Started using
hledger
Videos
- This Video Has (Many) Views
- This is what our climate change denial looks like. (CW: Climate change is very sad)
- How We Reopen (after The Plague)
- Why You Can’t Name A File CON In Windows, on backwards compatibility
- COVID-19 and Economic Narratives
TV Shows, movies & documentaries
I have mostly watched films lately, here are the ones I liked the most in no particular order:
- The Tale (CW: abuse)
- Brokeback Mountain (CW: violent homophobia)
- O Auto Da Compadecida
- But I am a Cheerleader (CW: homophobia)
- Sorry to Bother You (CW: racism)
- Mean Girls
- Creep (CW: it’s scary)
Books
I kind of switched to reading more books and less articles during the lockdown, both as a sort of experiment and because the whole world kind of only talked about COVID-19 and I wanted to read about something else. The main conclusion is that reading fiction is a lot of fun, specially if it’s in Spanish and I don’t have to spend a lot of energy for doing it.
- War with the Newts (no review, but I loved it)
- Alternatives to Capitalism: Proposals for a Democratic Economy (review, freely available on the authors’ webpages)
- The Rust Programming Language (well-written; Rust is so comfortable to work with. I also solved all the rustlings)
- The Signal and the Noise (review I wanted to like it but I really didn’t)
Math & Computer Science
- On the shoulders of giants: recent changes in Internet traffic, Internet performance during the COVID-19 emergency and When people pause the Internet goes quiet
- Normalization of deviance
- What’s up with monomorphism?
- Barcode recovery using a priori constraints
Science & Economics
- Going Critical
- Nationalize Amazon
- Why Valve? Or, what do we need corporations for and how does Valve’s management structure fit into today’s corporate world?
Politics & society
- Legal Systems Very Different From Ours, Because I Just Made Them Up (fiction but interesting as a thought experiment I guess?)
- Outpacing the Virus: Digital Response to Containing the Spread of COVID-19 while Mitigating Privacy Risks
- Digital hoarders: “Our terabytes are put to use for the betterment of mankind”
- Suicide Prevention Trigger Guard in Turkish Armed Forces (CW: Suicide, disturbing)